As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year in the case Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, In. v. Comer, Missouri taxpayers are footing the bill for new playground surfaces at churches and Christian schools — and that likely means some public schools

An annual tradition of this column calls attention to the kind of religious inspiration that religion didn’t necessarily request. Suspecting that the cause of these decisions were due to indigestion rather than inspiration, I’ve named them the Bad Burrito Awards.

Rather than just giving Christmas presents to the needy, two Kansas City-area church churches are giving the gift of giving and helping parents or guardians to pick and give their own presents to their children.

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Jesus Garcia, pastor at Iglesia Bautista de Metrópolis in Carolina, Puerto Rico, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor. He discusses Baptists in Puerto Rico and the continuing efforts to rebuild from Hurricane Maria in 2017. He also talks about being dually-aligned with American Baptist Churches USA and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. (This episode is sponsored…

Marv Knox, field coordinator for Fellowship Southwest, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor. He discusses the work of Fellowship Southwest in areas of immigration and hurricane response. A longtime Baptist editor, he also talks about the importance of Baptist journalism and press freedoms. (This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

In this episode, Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor reports on a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a debate about the religious meaning of a cross on government land. The episode includes clips from the Court's oral arguments in the case, as well as comments by Holly Hollman, general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious…

This bonus episode features a sermon by Lance Muteyo, coordinator of the Pan African Peace Network, given at Prairie Baptist Church in Prairie Village, Kan. Hear Muteyo's interview with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor in episode 56.